You're listening to the First Name Basis podcast, Season 3, Episode 10, the untold story of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Teaching our children to be inclusive and anti-racist starts with us within the sacred walls of our home.

First-name basis is designed to empower you with the confidence you need to be a leader in your family and a change maker in your community.

Together, we will wrestle with hard questions and use the answers to create the world we want,

a world that reflects our values of inclusion,

compassion, and courage. I'm your host, Jasmine Bradshaw, and I am so excited to be on this journey

with you. Hello, First Name Basis, fam. I am so glad you are here. And I'm so glad that you are here in the

midst of so much chaos in our country. I've been thinking so much about what happened at the

Capitol, the insurrection, and the violence. And I've been considering what I wanted to share

with you. And it really has come down to the violence. And I've been considering what I wanted to share with you. And it really has come down

to the reason why we exist here at first name basis. It always comes back to the same thing.

I think that the most important conversations that we have are the ones in our homes. I think to all of the people who participated in the

violence and all of the people who are involved in perpetuating these lies, and I think about

the conversations that they must be having in their home. I bet you, most of those people who participated

in the violent attack on our democracy

have had someone in their life who has wanted to say, stop. You're wrong. You need to stop this.

I think about all of those dinner table conversations where people have been silent.

All of those Thanksgiving conversations where no one spoke up because they knew

that the uncle would never change his mind. Well, that's just not true. We need to be speaking up.

We need to be speaking out and we need to start with our family. We need to start in our homes

with our children by giving them truth and teaching them how to stand up against misinformation.

And then we need to start with the people in our circle. I'm pretty sure we all know someone who we would like to share our heart with and we would like to share the truth with, but maybe we're a little bit anxious.

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